Carlsbad New Mexico:5 types of plutonium were released;Caldicott:Inhaling a millionth of a gram of plutonium will induce lung cancer
http://enenews.com/radiation-expert-5-types-of-plutonium-were-released-from-wipp-officials-not-informing-public-caldicott-i-predict-that-facility-will-never-be-able-to-be-used-again-inhaling-a-millionth-of-a
Radiation Expert: 5 types of plutonium
were released from WIPP; Officials not informing public — Caldicott: “I
predict that facility will never be able to be used again”; Inhaling a
millionth of a gram of plutonium will induce lung cancer (AUDIO)
KUNM,
Mar. 24, 2014: The director of an organization that evaluated the WIPP
site for over 25 years said officials aren’t doing enough to inform New
Mexicans. [...] “I just can’t stress the importance of DOE being
available to respond to detailed questions that people have,” [Dr. Bob
Neill] said. “There’s no substitute for direct communication.”
Immediately after the leak was discovered, the public should have been
given a detailed explanation of what was released, said Dr. Neill, who
received his degree in radiological medicine. Americium 241 and
plutonium 239 were mentioned. “But there are four other radio-isotopes
of plutonium, namely the 238, 240, the beta and 241,” he said. “They’re
all bone-seekers. So you want to be able to report all the values—how
each one may have contributed. It’s just essential.” [...] “It’s so
important to answer people’s questions—and not just people in Carlsbad,
but throughout the state and elsewhere,” he said. As for the leak
itself, he said all of the possible causes of the failure at WIPP must
be considered, and a response system should be designed accordingly.
Interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott, March 2014 (
at 37:30 in):
One of the repositories for very, very dangerous radioactive waste
plutonium, americium, etc. has just leaked radiation all around the area
in Carlsbad, New Mexico. One microgram of plutonium, a millionth of a
gram of plutonium, if inhaled will induce lung cancer. It’s
extraordinarily radioactive. So they thought this would be safe storing
radiation in salt mines, but something happened, one of the casks blew
up or part of the ceiling fell on the casks, we do not know. But I
predict that that facility will never be able to be used again, it will
be so contaminated.
Full interview with Dr. Caldicott available here (subscription required)
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Published: March 25th, 2014 at 12:03 pm ET
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This is obviously VERY bad. It just gets harder to navigate when given so little to go on.
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The last question of each set will be a mini jab
And the final question of question 5 will be a no-brainer coup de grace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_de_gr%C3%A2ce
I like using the French version of this saying since those Frenchies are so pround of their overcompensating nuker plants.
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Are you in this area?
We're already going to be bringing a few EPA radnet print-outs which show BETA readings for Albuquerque for the last four months. (We can bring gamma too — just don't know how to read them.) We WANT alpha readings, but do not even know how to push for that.
What interested us recently was at the Fukushima Solutions weekend just past in Texas, David Yurth (and yeah, we were unhappy about his pushing thorium, but he still had a lot of scientific expertise) was very specific about why/how storage casks (like those shipped to WIPP) decay radioactively and cannot be remediated. But I had no playback button for a live talk, and didn't catch it well enough to explain it back. I'd like to be able to bring it up if possible — if I can get even the basics myself. We're checking ongoing when his talk might be coming out on youtube.
Us, we'll be thrilled if people come out swinging at that meeting this coming Thursday. Just hard to predict. Don Hancock (who has certainly been diligent, and apparently long-range) is a reasoned kind of a guy — not really a firebrand. And there have to be other speakers too — just don't know who.
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And finally winter is breaking and tons of projects kicking off. Slammed 12 hours a day now with real projects.
Will prepare will help from some others and append to your comment here as it is near the top of the page and thus easy to find.
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“WIPP has been vital to the nation and is responsible for major, significant economic impact to the community,” she said. “WIPP’s local support has never wavered.”
http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2012/12/where-used-nuclear-fuel-is-wanted.html
Yup, them locals are so in love with WIPP that they have developed special lung functions that are immune to Plutonium particles.
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